Human and Economic Statistics of Iraq War

Massachusetts Taxpayers pay $3.9 BILLION for cost of Iraq War in FY 2007.

For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:

1,132,002 Adults with Health Care
or
419,065 Scholarships for University Students
or
1,416,290 Children with Health Care

Global Poverty Facts:

•12% of world’s population uses 85% of the world’s water.
•51% of world’s wealthiest bodies are CORPORATIONS.
•225 of richest individual's combined annual income equals 47% of world’s wealth.
From: MCLA 2007 Hunger Banquet

The U.S. spends $16.67 BILLION in Iraq EVERY MONTH.

1/6th of war expense would provide 50+ years of stable U.S. Social Security System - without cutting benefits or raising contributions of individuals.

U.S. national debt was $5.7 trillion when Bush took office.

$2 TRILLION higher as result of war.

$800 BILLION increase under Bush before the war.

U.S. troops injured in Iraq is 15 times the number of fatalities.

52,000 returning veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder.

40% of 1.65 million troops already deployed owed disability compensation from U.S. government.

Combined health-care & disability costs exceed $600 BILLION in present-value terms.

FOR IRAQ:

Death statistics from first 40 months of war estimated between 450,000 - 600,000.

150,000 classified as violent deaths.

Total population of 28 million.

4 million displaced.

2 million fled Iraq.

50% of Iraq’s doctors killed or left Iraq.

Unemployment at 25%.

Baghdad has less than 8 hours of electricity a day.

From “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.”
Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, professor of economics at Columbia University.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/03/12/7634/